# Internal Audit Lead, Stablecoins & Digital Assets

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: San Francisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies,from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups,use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

We are building a world-class Internal Audit (IA) team to strengthen the organization's ability to create, protect, and sustain value by providing the board and management with independent, risk-based, and objective assurance, advice, insight, and foresight.

As the IA Lead for Stablecoins and Digital Assets, you'll be the primary architect of our internal oversight framework for stablecoin and digital asset activities. You'll design and lead a comprehensive, risk-based internal audit strategy tailored to the unique demands of an OCC-regulated national trust bank and one of the most dynamic and highly regulated frontiers of payments and treasury,stablecoins.

## Responsibilities

- Lead and execute a risk-based internal audit strategy providing end-to-end coverage for stablecoin activities,including issuance and redemption flows, treasury and reserve management, custody and key management, on-ramps and off-ramps, and interoperability with payment rails and banking partners,in full compliance with OCC 12 CFR Part 30 (Heightened Standards).

- Audit key fiduciary frameworks applicable to trust and custodial products, assessing and testing governance, compliance, treasury, financial reporting, reconciliation, technology, risk management, and operational controls unique to stablecoin programs and trust banking to ensure design and operating effectiveness.

- Coordinate audits that integrate on-chain evidence, blockchain analytics, and transaction tracing with traditional financial audit techniques to produce objective findings and recommendations.

- Present independent, objective reports directly to the Audit Committee and Board on the effectiveness of internal controls, risk management, and governance processes, communicating complex technical and regulatory risks to senior stakeholders in clear, actionable terms.

- Serve as the primary IA point of contact for regulators, industry-standard bodies, and network partners,managing submission of materials, responding to Supervisory Letters and exam findings, and presenting audit evidence and findings to enhance confidence in oversight of stablecoin programs.

- Partner with senior management and cross-functional teams to translate audit findings into durable, structured remediation plans with control enhancements, tracking all corrective actions to verified closure.

## Minimum requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Computer Science, Information Security, or related field

- 8+ years of experience in internal audit, risk management, or compliance with significant exposure to payments, treasury, or stablecoin products, and at least 3 years in a senior leadership role

- Deep understanding of blockchain concepts and stablecoin mechanics, plus treasury and reserve accounting implications

- Strong experience in risk-based audit planning, execution, and reporting across governance, compliance, financial reporting, fiduciary, custodial, and operational controls

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present complex technical and regulatory issues to non-technical senior stakeholders

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional remediation efforts and track closure of corrective actions

- High degree of integrity, independence, and professional skepticism

## Skills

### Required
- internal audit
- risk management
- compliance
- blockchain
- stablecoin
- treasury
- reserve accounting
- governance
- financial reporting
- fiduciary
- custodial
- operational controls
- audit planning
- execution
- reporting
- communication
- remediation efforts

### Nice to have
- Master's degree
- MBA
- advanced technical degree
- Professional certification
- CIA
- CPA
- CISSP
- CISA
- blockchain analytics
- transaction tracing tools
- data analytics platforms
- continuous monitoring
- on-chain risks
- treasury exposures
- liquidity stress testing

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